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Australian fights homophobia with World Gay Boxing Championships

Australian fights homophobia with World Gay Boxing Championships

SEB STARCEVIC Lying sick in hospital, Martin Stark was not only worried about his poor health - the gay boxer was also crushed by the news that boxing had been dropped from the 2022 Gay Games. So the 45-year-old Australian decided to create another LGBT+ sports festival to achieve his dream of competing on the world stage. "I was calling myself the future world gay boxing champion, I was going to go and win gold for Australia," Stark told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview. "I was in my hospital bed, and I thought, 'I can't stop this…
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